Luke 2:3

3 And everyone went to their own town to register.

Luke 2:3 in Other Translations

KJV
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
ESV
3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.
NLT
3 All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census.
MSG
3 Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for.
CSB
3 So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.

Luke 2:3 In-Context

1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
3 And everyone went to their own town to register.
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
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